Keywords: orphan
Item 9401
Letter of thanks from Female Orphan Asylum, Portland, 1856
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1856-10-15 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 14216
Orphan boys shoveling coal, Fairfield, ca. 1900
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1900 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 70374
139-151 Pleasant Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Female Orphan Asylum Use: Orphan Asylum
Item 70375
Assessor's Record, 147 Pleasant Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Female Orphan Asylum Use: Garage used as Playhouse
Item 116612
Sweetser Children's home, Saco, 1948-1951
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948–1951 Location: Saco Client: unknown Architect: John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects
Exhibit
Sarah Sampson: Caring for Soldiers, Orphans
Sarah Sampson of Bath went to war with her husband, a captain in the 3rd Maine Regiment. With no formal training, she spent the next four and a half years providing nursing and other services to soldiers. Even after her husband became ill and returned to Maine, Sampson remained in the Washington, D.C., area aiding the sick and wounded.
Exhibit
Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape
The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.
Site Page
L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley
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Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Fred Ryder, Bangor, 1864
"… Museum Description Fred Ryder was an orphan who lived with his uncle in Bangor. He sold candy on the streets."
Story
Orphanage on Revere Street
by anonymous
An orphanage operated by a Mrs. Oliver on 54 Revere Street in Portland, Maine in 1930.
Story
Julia Winters and Life in Lewiston/Auburn, Maine
by Judy Zaccagnini Flynn, granddaughter
6 year old sent to Maine foster home when her parents were unable to care for her